My Favorite Mistake (My Favorite Mistake, #1)

by Chelsea M. Cameron

Two secrets. One bet. Who will break first? 

Taylor Caldwell can't decide if she wants to kiss her new college roommate or punch him. 

On the one hand, Hunter Zaccadelli is a handsome blue-eyed bundle of charm. On the other, he's a tattooed, guitar-playing bad boy. Maybe that's why Taylor's afraid of falling in love with him, or anyone else. She doesn't want to get burned, so she needs him gone before it's too late. 

Hunter himself has been burned before, but Taylor's sexy laugh and refusal to let him get away with anything make her irresistible. Determined not to be kicked out of her life without a fight, Hunter proposes a bet: if she can convince him she either truly loves or hates him, he'll leave the apartment—and leave her alone. 

But when the man behind Taylor's fear of giving up her heart resurfaces, she has to decide: trust Hunter with her greatest secret, or do everything in her power to win that bet and drive him away forever.

• ISBN10: 0373778295
• ISBN13: 9780373778294
• Publish Date: 27 August 2013 (first published 1 October 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: CA
• Imprint: Hqn
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[Linda]

*I received a free ARC of My Favorite Mistake from Harlequin via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review*

Awesome story! Excellent characters. Anticipation galore. Beautifully written!

This and all my other reviews are originally posted on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews

[Rowena]

It was really hard to connect with Taylor. She has issues that made her the way that she was but it was really hard to like her because she was such a hypocrite. She had this secret that she would not talk about. She wouldn’t talk about it with Hunter and Hunter let her keep her secrets but did she give him the same courtesy? Oh, no. She kept prodding and prying and getting pissed off when Hunter refused to talk about it. She pressed so much that when things blew up in her face, I wanted to punch her. To be honest, I didn’t see what there was to like about Taylor. Her attitude and the way that everyone had to tip toe around her and her issues in their own house made me mad. And I hated that she was so violent with Hunter. And I hated it even more that Hunter just let it happen. The things that she did to him when she was angry was not okay. Her secret was a violent one and that she dealt with her anger so aggressively and so violently made me ashamed of her. I will say that she came a long way in the end but even after all was said and done, I don’t think she deserved Hunter.

Overall, this book was a solid story but the characters and their actions throughout the story pissed me off for a good portion of the book. I liked getting to know Hunter and Taylor’s roommates and I really liked meeting Hunter and Mase’s family. I would have liked to see more page time devoted to explaining why Taylor hated her father so much. I mean, we get the jist but it would have been nice to see that fleshed out more and resolved nicely.

While there were things about this book that I didn’t like and characters that got on my nerves, I am curious to read the next book in this series. I wonder who’s story it’ll be.

[Cocktails and Books]

Even though Taylor really bugged me and I wanted Hunter to find someone else, I really liked the book. The ending came a bit quicker than I wanted, but all in all it was a good read.

Time permitting, full review may appear later.

[littleread1]

I don’t read books that have no paranormal aspects. I am not picky, demons, vampires, shifters, witches, angels, etc. You name it, I either have read it or want to read it. So when I was approached by Cameron about reading My Favorite Mistake, I was very hesitant. I have developed a great friendship with her through this whole author/blogger world. And I really didn’t want to tell her that I didn’t like her book. I didn’t … I LOVED IT.I read it it one sitting. I may have forgotten to eat that day. Whats funny is I cannot put my finger on why I liked it so much. There isn’t one thing about it. The characters were believable, though their situation seemed a little off to me, but hey, my college did not have co-ed apartments so maybe it is something that could happen.

Both Taylor and Hunter have secrets, though if you ask me his is much worse than hers. But I (fortunately) have not had to deal with either, so I guess I can’t really say one way or another. But I can imagine, between the two, I would be way more screwed up in the head with what happened to him. I won’t say any more about it because I don’t want to give anything away. :-) I like to be surprised and I assume you do too.

Like I said earlier, I have a hard time pinpointing exactly what it was about this book that I liked so much, but there was something.